hangs while running etckeeper

[Rob Walker]

I have etckeeper installed to track changes to /etc using git.

After applying updates in kpackagekit, it hangs with the progress window at 100% with the action "Committing changes"

Looking at the running processes, I see this:

 4786 1233 root ? Sl 0:06 /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
 4920 4920 root pts/2 Ss+ 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
29854 4920 root pts/2 S+ 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
29855 4920 root pts/2 S+ 0:00 \_ sh -c if [ -x /usr/bin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi
29856 4920 root pts/2 S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/etckeeper post-install
29859 4920 root pts/2 S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /etc/etckeeper/post-install.d/50vcs-commit
29866 4920 root pts/2 S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/etckeeper commit --stdin
29887 4920 root pts/2 S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /etc/etckeeper/commit.d/50vcs-commit --stdin
29895 4920 root pts/2 S+ 0:00 \_ git commit -F /tmp/etckeeper-git.tP2X3IaUpT

git log in /etc shows that the commit has been made sucessfully - the most recent commit has the right date and the list of changes is what has just been updated.

strace on the stalled git process shows:

[root@linchpin /etc <master>]# strace -p 29895
Process 29895 attached - interrupt to quit
write(1, "[master 82c5deb] committing chan"..., 490

Which suggests that nothing is reading from the stdout of the post install hooks

kpackagekit version is: 0.6.3.3-0ubuntu2
packagekit is: 0.6.11-2ubuntu3
etckeeper is: 0.52ubuntu1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: kpackagekit 0.6.3.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 16 12:22:47 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kpackagekit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-04 (72 days ago)

[Matthias Klumpp (ximion)]

This one is already fixed in newer version of PackageKit :)
You'll get the changes with Oneiric.
Thank you for this very good bug report!